ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

"If only you cared about ___________ as much as Kimmel." Y'all, it's not a matter of caring, it's a matter of *leverage*. Millions of people across the country all had immediate financial leverage to exert over Disney/ABC; that does not exist for a great many other issues, esp. regional ones.

We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.

Too bad this shutdown doesn't include his mouth

Son, I've spent countless hours interviewing gang members across Chicago and they would laugh at you so hard your vampiric skin would slide off your body in a desperate attempt to escape the indignity of it all.

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

That man who always smells sex and candy, I don’t care for him. Even if it is true you mustn’t keep announcing it.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

best way of looking at the situation in front of us

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

If your elderly relatives started telling you about AI videos they had watched saying that "medbeds" would fix everyone's health problems, you'd start to look into assisted living and power of attorney. Trump has the nuclear codes.

It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron

EZRA KLEIN: we *have* to learn to live together TRUMP DECLARING WAR ON 15th CITY: lmao, yeah totally, what he says. listen to him

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

I'm actually enjoying the fact that THIS is what replaced the Charlie Kirk hysteria. "Charlie is a martyr, and we'll never forget his sacrifice." [a fucking escalator stops briefly] "HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD."

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

If a crime is committed in the Oval Office and no one is there to enforce it, does it make a sound?

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

The Wall Street Journal does great reporting, but its editorial pages are too left-wing. by Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis

I thought this week was going to be worst for 1st Amendment scholars, but suddenly it looks like it's actually Legal Writing folks who will have it worst.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die people don't have to be threatened and bullied into pretending they're sad about it.

I like this. The drum beat for “persuasion” and “civility” serves as a demand for self-censorship and avoidance of important but divisive issues. The implicit demand to first ~persuade~ our way to total consensus before any political change serves only the status quo and those sitting pretty in it

Maybe we could just take away their access to guns instead of scrutinizing their manifestos for a great thesis statement.

Donald Trump lost New York by 12% -- 1.1 million votes. Everyone needs to understand that Trump will insist there were irregularities and fraud anytime he or a Republican loses any election. Now is the time to start preparing for this in 2026.

all signs point to this being just an incredibly destabilizing moment. very very bad stuff. we're in a very dark place.

If we have to have a corrupt criminal as our dictator-president, at least it’s one who can’t keep his fucking mouth shut about how much he loves being corrupt and doing crimes

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Lie back and think of America

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

Whoever once laughed at a Senator John Kennedy joke, thus convincing him he’s hilarious, has a lot to answer for.

It’s interesting that Trump thinks he can solve America's drug problem by going after traffickers outside the U.S., but he refuses to address blue cities’ crime problem by going after the red states supplying the guns.

NARRATOR: The president does not, in fact, have any "right" to deploy armed forces on the streets of American cities in times of peace

Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!

possible that Trump heard about the Lutnick boys placing a major bet on tariffs being overturned and it just broke him

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i can’t unsee it.

is…is the senate minority leader who spent the weekend before the hhs secretary confirmation vote—after choosing not to deny unanimous consent—in a grocery store howling at the elderly about oncoming tomato price hikes telling one of *us* to fire rfk‽

it’s a shame he has no sense of humor because if he called a press conference tomorrow and showed up in mummification rags i would have to hand it to him a little

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

This is one of the most annoying forms of punditry: Taking a reasonable concept (don't draw attention to things that help your opponent) and stretching it to the point of absurdity. This isn't an obscure House vote about ethanol subsidies, it's the military occupation of America. People will notice!